CA AB1041

Expands California Family Rights Act to allow employees to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid leave to care for a "designated person" defined as any individual related by blood or whose association with the employee is equivalent to a family relationship.

Permits employees to identify a designated person at the time leave is requested, with employers allowed to limit employees to one designated person per 12-month period.

Expands the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 to include "designated persons" in the definition of family members for purposes of paid sick days.

Defines "designated person" for paid sick day purposes as a person identified by the employee when requesting paid sick days, subject to employer limitation of one designated person per 12-month period.

Approved by Governor on September 29, 2022 and filed with Secretary of State the same date.